ed. They had no idea of ??how to treat all that to turn it to eatable food. Tired and hungry they could think of nothing but food and nearly ate each other. One of the generals remembered that they miss a man - muzhik, who ought to be somewhere over the island too. So they find one. This muzhik takes good care of them, feeding them with different meals. The generals lived happily since then but missed home; so they made him bring them back home. Getting home, they thanked the man by sending «a glass of vodka and a-five-copeck silver coin» (п'ятак) to have a feast . Uninhabited island, Petersburg, Podyacheskyi district A hungry man is an angry man - but our generals best thing to do was to make a muzhik work for them; they have died if not that man; Gratitude is the heart s memory (French) - will they meet the same care for such gratitude?
Table 10. Kazakh folktales «Beauty Kunkey» - «Красуня Кунка» [43, 100-107]
CharactersStory developmentLocationsMoraleMain Minor A young man, vizier, Kunkey, rock carrying batyr, hear-all batyr, lake carrying batyr, fast running batyr, khan, mother, an old man, an old woman, an ant, Kunkey s fatherA young man brings a fallow-deer with golden horns to khan; the vizier, who envies much, tells khan to send him for a silver-golden stand and then for a golden tree - the young man manages all that: with the stand by his mother help and with the tree by an old man s help. The plotter-Vizier tells to send him after Beauty Kunkey, who lived right under the sun. on our hero s way, he meets rock carrying batyr, hear-all batyr, lake carrying batyr, fast running batyr and an ant - the batyrs and ant, who help him to overcome the traps of Kunkey s father. Kunkey falls in love with the young man and turns his khan into a wolf and turns Vizier into a fox, making the wolf chase the fox. So, the young man and Kunkey stay together.Palace, steppe, cave Curses like chickens come home to roost - for the vizier, and Enough is as good as a feast - for the young man.
Table 11. Kazakh folktales «Three sons of the poor» - «Три сини бідняка» [43, 76-91]
CharactersStory developmentLocationsMoraleMain Minor Ashken, Moshken, Zhumakeldi - three brothers, The father of the three brothers, three old women, two princesses, a sister of giants , three khans, a witchThe father of the three brothers, getting disappointed, sends them away from home. On their way they 1) stop in the woods first night, where Ashken at night kills a seven-headed monster-bird; 2) second night Moshken kills a seven-headed dragon under the ground that had much gold and silver; 3) third night Zhumakeldi kills 40 giants and cuts out each giant s ear. None of them told anything to each other. Coming to city they find out that khan is looking for the batyr, who killed the 40 giants and seven-headed monsters. He finally finds out who was it and offers his throne and daughter to marry, but the youngest son gives that opportunity to the eldest brother. In the second town they find out that there also was a monster - a snake, who every night ate a girl. Zhumakeldi kills that monster too, thus savin...
